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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | Have been bothered by a oil leak for 4 years. Kept getting worse. Local mechanic told me it was the rear main seal. He replaced it for the SMALL sum of 300 bucks.
It still leaked. He worked on it again for 150. It still leaked. Took it to a different mechanic. He replaced the intake manifold rear seal and performed other tasks that I could have done my self.The problem is fixed for a additional 400$ I could have done the job for $4 of silicone my self. Well live and learn
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | I thought by now someone would be on my butt for spending $400
for a job I ought to be able to do myself/ | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | You rich guys can afford that stuff. Poor guys like me have to do it ourselves.
I pulled the engine on the '54, replaced the rear main seal and all the gaskets and she still marks her spot. But not like she did. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 | If it's not too late,consider you butt put upon   | | | | | Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 90 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 90 | Thought these trucks where like old bikes, when they stop leaking oil its time too fill them back up lol
1954 3600 With 1950's Powers of St Louis Utility Bed.
My truck | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,675 | The first rule of leak chasing is to look for the highest wet spot. Oil from a rear main seal leak doesn't run uphill!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 89 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 89 | clean it off best ya can (brake clean is great, then use talc or baby powder and old paint brush on dry motor (like the wife applying blush), run for a short while and look for the wet spot.
it ain't YOURS 'till it ain't stock!
1951 chevy 3100
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